Neonatal Feeding Intolerance and Its Characteristics: A Descriptive Study.

Background:  Feeding intolerance (FI) is common in preterm infants leading to feeding and gastrointestinal disruptions. FI in newborns can be a sign of a variety of problems, ranging from minor, self-limiting illnesses to serious ones. Many causes are found to cause FI such as low intestinal motility, bacterial colonization, hormonal response, and local immunity response.

Neonatal Stridor in Familial Congenital Laryngeal Paralysis (Plott Syndrome): A Case Study in an Omani Family.

Stridor presenting soon after birth due to bilateral abductor vocal cord paralysis (VCP) is rare. We report a family with bilateral VCP affecting four male members in two generations and hence suggesting X-linked recessive inheritance. Severe stridor in the neonatal period requires meticulous airway evaluation, and tracheostomy in 35-70% cases.

Clinical, biochemical, and radiological manifestations of vitamin D deficiency in newborns presented with hypocalcemia.

Introduction: The Clinical and radiological manifestations of newborns with severe VDD have not been studied well.

Materials And Methods: We studied the clinical, biochemical, and radiological manifestations of 10 full-term (FT) newborns (6: M, 4: F) infant presented to with symptomatic hypocalcemia (seizure) secondary to vitamin D deficiency (VDD) during the first 10 days of life are described. All were exclusively breastfed since birth.

A Sacral Mass in a Newborn: A Variant of Type II Diastematomyelia with Triple Splitting of the Cord.

Ultrasonographic (US) evaluation of spinal anomalies is limited. MRI is increasingly being used in the diagnosis of spinal anomalies. MRI has been able to show clearly the detailed anatomy of this rare case of type II diastematomyelia with triple splitting of the cord.

Placental weight: relation to maternal weight and growth parameters of full-term babies at birth and during childhood.

Human growth is a continuous process. Studies defining placental effect on prenatal and postnatal human growth are few. We studied the anthropometric data of hundred mothers who gave birth at term after an uncomplicated singleton pregnancy, and their infants in relation to their placental weight using linear regression analysis.